Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
:   Bear in mind that when I post these in html format it keeps intact all
: of my bookmark descriptions that took a considerable amount of time to add
: to each link. If I were to simply copy and past the links as plain text
: I would lose these valuable link discriptions. I type too slow and do
: not really feel inspired to type in 500+ new descriptions thank you.

  If you are using unix you can use the sed command to automatically
reformat all those 500+ lines. For example suppose that the original file
(let's name it 'links.html') has the following lines:

<p><a href="http://some.place/some/file.html">Very cool page!</a>
<p><a href="http://other.place/ugly/file.html">This page sux.</a>

  Now the command:

sed 's/<p><a href="//;s/">/: /;s/<\/a>//' links.html

prints the following lines:

http://some.place/some/file.html: Very cool page!
http://other.place/ugly/file.html: This page sux.

  This way you could automatically reformat any amount of lines in seconds.

  Of course, if you are not using unix, you have a problem... :)

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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